The Heights senior shares his love for math in after-school program with St. Francis Xavier middle school students
Zayd Patel has a confession to make.
“Up until fifth grade, I totally hated math, despised it,” he said.
But Patel, now an 18-year-old senior at The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland, underwent a math conversion in middle school, thanks to his sixth-grade teacher who got him interested in the subject, and another teacher who introduced him to the MATHCOUNTS program, which sharpens students’ math skills and sponsors math competitions.
“I’m someone who loves math now,” said Patel.